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000278538 24500 $$aAmerican wits :$$ban anthology of light verse /$$cJohn Hollander, editor.
000278538 260__ $$aNew York :$$bLibrary of America,$$cc2003.
000278538 300__ $$axxv, 194 p. ;$$c20 cm.
000278538 440_0 $$aAmerican poets project
000278538 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 175-185) and index.
000278538 520__ $$aIn this book John Hollander offers a buoyant guided tour of American light verse-a tradition he pursues from Ambrose Bierce's sardonic The devil's dictionary quatrains to the latter-day comic inventions of Edward Gorey, Kenneth Koch, and James Merrill. Along the way, American wits gathers a rich harvest of couplets, clerihews, epigrams, parodies, burlesques, and other forms of fractured verse. The varied and often surprising list of contributors includes Edwin Arlington Robinson, Don Marquis, T. S. Eliot, Christopher Morley, Dorothy Parker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ogden Nash, Phyllis McGinley, and Anthony Hecht.
000278538 650_0 $$aHumorous poetry, American.
000278538 650_0 $$aAmerican poetry.
000278538 7001_ $$aHollander, John.
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